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Rotifers

Rotifers are tiny multicellular organisms found commonly in freshwater environments around the world. They are largely considered to be the smallest animals on Earth, composed of over 1,000 cells complete with a full digestive system and jaws but only reaching the size of a microscopic amoeba. They can be found in the most extreme environments, including the Mojave Desert where they enter dormancy when their habitats dry up. Scientists in Antarctica have recently discovered single cell organisms existing deep below ice sheets, but they’re looking even harden to see if more complex creatures like rotifers have been able to survive without sunlight in sub-zero temperatures for nearly a million years.

Image by Dr. Igor Siwanowicz, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus.

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Jochen Hein (German, b. 1960), Meeresoberfläche [Sea Surface], 2017. Acrylic on cotton, 60 x 80 cm.

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We have always liked those others the ways they move birds holding the air for dear life fish screwing the water for dear life animals sniffing the earth for dear life

it's all so simple we say

how they take what is there or each other how they know who to take who will take them

but what's the tune they dance to? every step is a sure one every turn undisputed though it ends

in the rhythm of jaws

We always liked them those others whose singing is beyond our throats

—George Economou, “Those Others,” from Landed Natures, 1969

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Statue of queen Zenobia in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Lattakia, Syria

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The flowing water in the brook .. By © Dubi Roman

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Escalante, Utah. @relatetorocks

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Hiroshi Egami, The Black Earth

In the world of water, everything is enlarged and distorted. Human beings were born there, though they cannot enter there. Supposing that water is truth, I wonder if people living in this world are distorted, transformed beings.

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Clear ideas, 1958

Rene Magritte

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Madeira by Lukas Furlan

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Alps Impressions XVII by Lukas Furlan